The Indie Bible: 3500 Publications that Will Review Your CD; 2900 Radio Stations that Will Play Your Music Review

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(More customer reviews)Let's start from my own personal experience. I bought this book, submitted my song via mp3 to 5 radio stations that were listed in one of the many categories, not expecting any responses. Needless to say, within a week a popular DJ had emailed me to send him a cd to play on his Friday night show. In disbelief I sent it and the day after it was played, I received extra hits on my website. It was really incredible. This guide lists 2700 radio stations that are willing to play your music and 2300 publications that will review your music. Included are also 33 very useful Articles with tips in the music business and 440 services to help sell your cd's. It lives up to the hype and it saved me alot of time. All listings offer web and/or email addresses as well as a short description of the site. Although the thought of not having the actual street addresses may discourage some from purchasing, you must realize that the internet is one of the most effective ways to market your music nowadays in order to reach the world. I give this book 5 stars!

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The Indie Bible shows you where to get your music reviewed, your songs played, and your CDs sold. Now in its Fourth Edition, The Indie Bible has 310 pages of valuable contacts and music-related articles. Over 8000 contacts in all!The 4th Edition of the Indie Bible contains:3500 publications from around the world that will REVIEW your CD!2900 radio stations from around the world will PLAY your songs!350 vendors and services that will help you to SELL your music!400 helpful resources and sites where you can PROMOTE your band!500 sites where you can UPLOAD your band's MP3 files!39 articles that will help your career to MOVE forward rapidly!Authors include Tim Sweeney, Daylle Deanna Schwartz, Jeri Goldstein, Brian Austin Whitney, Derek Sivers, Diane Rapaport, Janet Fisher, Jodi Krangle, Lord Litter and many more!

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Music Distribution: Selling Music In The New Entertainment Marketplace (2nd Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)With all the books on the Music Industry out there written by so called experts, its quite a shock to purchase one that actually tells us would be Indie CEO's, label owners, Artists, Managers and marketers the real deal.
I found this book to be overwhelmingly informative. ANYTHING you need to know about releasing, distributing and promoting your titles - its in this book! The book is my new Indie Bible, the exact manual for understanding how things get done, and most importantly - HOW TO ACTUALLY DO THEM!! You gotta have it.
Kudos to the Authors, this book is worth PLATINUM!
S. Montano
Vertigo Records, LLC

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This "second edition" book is a comprehensive study of the music industry distribution system along with understanding the "new trends" of the music business. It has a "real" hands-on approach with current trends already in motion within the retail distribution systems. Included are music industry stats, trends and new innovative ways in selling your music through both digital and physical CDs. It is a complete guide in the new music distribution and music business process along with insightful strategies for marketing, promotional campaigns, radio and retail strategies. Marketing through cutting-edge web-technology, and how to incorporate into retail distribution networks supporting soundscan capabilities are explored. The core platform of product fulfillment, understanding the entire process of music distribution and music business is examined.

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Get Media Airplay - A Guide to Getting Song Exposure, Music/Product Tie-Ins & Radio-Play Spins Review

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(More customer reviews)I am completely fed up with this book. And yet I cannot stop reading.
Irrelevant half-page celebrity pictures are everywhere. The smallest hint of organization is nowhere.
Why even bother to have chapters if you are going to bleed your pages and paragraphs from Pepsi corporate endorsement advice right into [what the book actually DOES trumpet itself as] radio spin advice (if masked behind the most choppy interview scheme imaginable) to movie placement tips back to radio demo submission information and then another curve-ball smack with a pointless picture of the Dillinger Escape Plan (?) It's as offensively paced as this little paragraph right here!
I agree with the previous review: There's very important material in here... SOMEWHERE!!! Just when the author has gone completely off the deep end with ego-tripping himself in his "triumphantly achieved" flash-in-the-pan interviews with "important people," he has a moment of genius with the hot tip for newer artists of how if they sound like the Smashing Pumpkins, they may actually have a marketing advantage over the original band! I laughed out loud at such random, on-and-off spurts of value to the reader.
But, the biggest dose of benefit/frustration comes with the generous supply of contact information we are given. I am sitting here completely lost as to how to go about using any of it! Some of the best seeming contacts are noted "stream of consciousness" - style, throughout the book, while at other times, random charts (with beaucoup de helpful names) are sitting on the page. Rick went through all the trouble of compiling an exhaustive list of contacts, and then they are listed haphazardly throughout his book! It's like he closed his eyes and threw a bucket of names against the wall, and where they landed, that's where they ended up in the book! So now I need to go back to the beginning, methodically create my own chart of every name in there, and organize my own spreadsheet; I know the book isn't supposed to do your work for you, but if he at least went through the trouble in the first place (to put it all in the book), how hard would it have been to organize it all? HUMPH!
Will the real Rick please stand up! Genius or Putz?! Hopefully the former!
I mean no disrespect to the author: I am unable to ascertain whether he suffers from ADD (in which case he should have had someone else assemble the book for him), or perhaps he was just completely rushed and the thing was most hastily put together.
Either way, YES I recommend you buy the book, because you DO learn things from Rick that you won't get elsewhere; but brace yourself for frustration.
DR

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Get Media Airplay is one media master's perspective on learning how to expose demos using creative media resources. You've got your CDs manufactured, but what's next? How do you get your songs on the radio, video channels, or playing at events? Get Media Airplay explores all aspects of selling talent by taking action structuring innovative audience awareness in the media industries.

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